CVE-2012-2173: IBM Security Appscan Source

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ODBC driver in IBM Security AppScan Source 7.x and 8.x before 8.6 sends an SHA-1 hash of the connection password during connections to a solidDB database, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.

Affected products

  • IBM Security Appscan Source: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.0.0.1 only; version 8.0.0.2 only; version 8.5 only; version 8.5.0.1 only

Published 2012-06-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.